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As noted in the introduction, the processes of regional integration and democratization have been unfolding simultaneously during the 1980s and 1990s in Latin America. Between 1979 and 1990, thirteen Latin American countries went through transitions to democracy and at the same time managed to resuscitate regional agreements or launch new ones.
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With few exceptions such as: Jeffrey Anderson (ed.), Regional Integration and Democracy. Expanding on the European Experience, Oxford, Rowman & Little field, 1999.
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Peter Evans, Harold Jacobson, Robert Putnam (eds.), Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993.
See Wayne Cornelius, Todd Eisenstadt, and Jane Hindley (eds.), Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico, San Diego, University of California Press, 1999
Manuel Antonio Garretón, La Posibilidad Democrática en Chile, Santiago de Chile, FLACSO, 1989.
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See, for instance, Kiordan Koett (ed.), Mercosur. Regional integration, World Markets, Boulder, CO, Lynne Kienner, 1999.
Clearly this is not to suggest that no other variable should be taken into account to have a complete picture of the consolidation of democracy in MERCOSUR. On the ambiguity of the European Union’s role see Jean Grugel, “Democratization and Ideational Diffusion: Europe, MERCOSUR and Social Citizenship,” Journal of Common Market Studies 45(3), 2007, pp. 43–68.
Olivier DabĂ©ne, “Does the Mercosur Still Have a Project?” in Francisco DomĂnguez and Márcos Guedes de Oliveira (eds.), Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy, Bern, Peter Lang, 2004.
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Dabène, O. (2009). Building a Collective Defense of Democracy. In: The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100749_3
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